Julian Reschke wrote:
> ...
Using an absolute URI is not common practice in HTTP for anything
other than requests to proxies. However, RFC 2616 requires that
servers understand and support absolute URIs (Sec. 5.1.2). In my
experience, this is a safe thing to assume; HTTP servers generally
treat the URI sensibly.
...
I did some more investigation, and...
1) RFC2616 also states: "...even though HTTP/1.1 clients will only
generate them in requests to proxies." -- which means, you can't use a
conforming HTTP/1.1 client to produce them.
2) I tested with Apache 2.2.8, which seems to ignore the scheme. That
seems to be a bug (raised:
<https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45579>).
3) I also tested with MS IIS 5.1, which immediately produces a 501
status for unknown schemes.
BR, Julian
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